The Keweenaw region in Upper Michigan has some of the highest quality copper in the world, being 95-98% pure. There is evidence of hundreds of ancient mines that date between 4,000 - 10,000 BC and that hundreds of tons of copper was removed. But, we have no clear idea what… https://t.co/ngqhfPhdXr
— Josh | Map Effects (@MapEffects) March 9, 2026
Back in the 90s in grad school I was in a seminar which matched field scientists with statisticians. A lady scientist charged me and another statistician with "sexual harassment" because we wouldn't type in her data.
— William M Briggs - Statistician to the Stars! (@FamedCelebrity) March 9, 2026
The "charge" was dropped because it was absurd, and because… https://t.co/JhGhQorIRM
She has sold over 80 million albums, won four Grammys, been nominated for an Oscar, and has never once gone on tour. She lives alone in a castle outside Dublin with her cats, her neighbour is Bono, and her own uncle has said “We don’t see much of her. She lives like a queen. She… pic.twitter.com/z40SkTKg9M
— Dr. Lemma (@DoctorLemma) March 10, 2026
Bloody hell, that must have been quite a Facebook post pic.twitter.com/r6O24Qidde
— Peter Hague (@peterrhague) March 6, 2026
American elites took public trust for granted. That was a catastrophic mistake. If people see even one academic punished or canceled for holding a view most Americans share, they stop trusting experts. And it didn’t happen once: FIRE found 14% of faculty — about 1 in 7 — say… https://t.co/GqxhAjwha2
— Greg Lukianoff (@glukianoff) March 10, 2026
The Theory of Moral Sentiments explains why a society that practices Smithian economics and limited govt will be a generous and cooperative society in practice. IMO it is as seminal for psychology and sociology as Wealth of Nations is for economics. https://t.co/NCwm5SE5o2
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) March 10, 2026
You can only enjoy nature aesthetically when you’re protected from its harsh realities by the prosperity provided by capitalism - and the security provided if not by war then by the capacity to wage it. https://t.co/VRV6OExqvK
— Peter Hague (@peterrhague) March 10, 2026
It’s funny but also not funny. It illustrates something important: a leadership class that has been selected not just to tolerate but to propagate and enforce propagandistic lies that it does not itself believe even when they harm children will be ruinous over any time scale… https://t.co/1b3FYIYSNd
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 10, 2026
The mother in response: you know, his brothers is a doctor. https://t.co/7eFrOVxrY0
— Yael Bar tur (@yaelbt) March 4, 2026
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